As I’m racing towards my first big break in 2017 in about two weeks (10 days in France), this is just a quick check in to let you know about all the good articles I read in the last couple of weeks.

My vacation reading stack for France is ready.

I always love me a good summer reading list. I’m already set for France but would love to hear your recommendations on what book to take to the beach or the balcony this summer (fiction and non-fiction). I will collect all the recommendations and put together a list for the next issue.

Facebook is not a country, yet it is assigning and removing rights about censorship and speech. It is not a civil rights organization, yet it decides that immigrants don’t have protected status within its walls.

Violet Blue pulls together some of the recent Facebook reportings and describes a similar picture of a company that seems utterly incapable of grasping its own problem

Facebook must accept the reality that it has changed how people talk to each other.

The company’s content moderation guide suggests it hasn’t come to grips with its unique role in the world – having made the same observation on my trip in March, it is fascinating to see how this has become a major topic over the last couple of weeks.